Look for actor Tom Berenger in Uptown on Wednesday. The success of Inception launched Berenger out of his ’80s time warp (The Big Chill, Someone to Watch Over Me, Major League) and put him in front of a new generation of moviegoers.

The Magnolia Theater is hosting a Blu-ray/DVD launch party for the action film Sinners and Saints, which will include a screening and a Q&A with Berenger, director William Kaufman and male lead Johnny Strong.

Love bites

Texas-born beauty Jennifer Love Hewitt was back in her home state just before New Year’s Eve. Last Thursday night, the Ghost Whisperer star popped up at Del Frisco’s Dallas steakhouse with a party of 11.

Nearing a billion

That gathering of residential real estate agents that recently invaded the brand-new Omni Dallas hotel was the Allie Beth Allman team. After the group toured the hotel’s restaurants and otherworldly sports bar, Allie Beth settled everyone in at the Omni’s Texas Spice eatery and revealed that the company was quietly closing in on $1 billion in sales for 2011.

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About Alan Peppard

MOST UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE ON THE JOB: Reintroducing myself to President George W. Bush after not seeing him for several years and having him reply, "Alan, you don't ever have to tell me who you are."

SOMETHING PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME: I have gills and webbed fingers and toes. I can talk to fish. I'm AquaMan!

IF I HAD TWO SPARE HOURS, I WOULD: Take a walk with my daughters.

I'M ALWAYS ENTERTAINED BY: "The Simpsons," four-part harmony and e-mails from the widow of Nigeria's minister of petroleum.

Hometown: Dallas, TX

Education: Greenhill School/SMU (political science major). I wanted to go to law school, but law school didn't want me. So I became a writer, first for D magazine and then for The Dallas Morning News.